This was the first time that I attended the annual memorial service for the victims and the ex-political prisoners of Ravensbrück. Sort of an early Mother’s day attention. Friday I visited her grave, Saturday the Dachau memorial and today the one for the second concentration camp she passed through. Winter weather is back. It wet snowed on the outdoor gathering at the monument. Yesterday it was the KLM who hosted the coffee prior and the lunch after the ceremonies and today it were the Russians of Gaz-Prom who hosted the participants. The Ravensbrück camp was liberated by Russian troops. Yesterday there was just Willemijn van Gurp as the last surviving attendee. Today there were at least six women survivors. I will add the names to the below photograph as soon as I can locate them.
L.R.: Beppie Ottenbros, Lotty Veffer-Huffener, Marianne de Burger, Selma Velleman-van de Perre, further on Right (not shown) Gisela Soehnlein-Wieberdink. (Ik gebruik Amerikaanse volgorde: Meisjesnaam-Trouwnaam)
For her who continued to say “No” to the very end to Fascism
With the “Old Glory” flying above the monument from the US Consulate
